Fumiko Hoeft Receives SfN Science Educator Award

Dr. Hoeft talked with us about how she learned to communicate science to a public audience and offers tips for others who want to try. Dana Foundation is proud sponsor of this award, given during the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting.

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How can we reduce the easy availability of opioids that is fueling the epidemic without depriving pain-wracked people of the opioid pain-killers they desperately need? Neuroethics column for Brain in the News.

Over thousands of years, tales about using cannabis to treat epilepsy accumulated. The FDA recently approved a solution containing cannabidiol, an ingredient of cannabis, for treating childhood epilepsy. But does cannabidiol live up to expectations?